One of the songs on
Michael Tomlinson’s new
album, House of Sky,
elicited a touching letter
of response from former U.S.
President Jimmy Carter. He
wrote to thank Michael for a
song Michael had written
about him and his years of
humanitarian work around the
world. The song is entitled
“Seeds of Love” and is one
of the cornerstones of
Michael’s newest release.
The entire album is filled
with deeply moving and
uplifting songs that are
impossible to categorize by
genre. To many listeners
they are just “Michael
Tomlinson music." Writes the
long-time President of MTV
and Vh1, Van Toffler, who
has followed Michael’s music
for more than twenty years,
“when it comes to beautiful,
soul-searching ballads,
Michael has no peer.”

Michael’s new album was
financed entirely by
listeners who felt much that
same way, supporters from
all over North America and
Europe. Last summer he
launched a crowd funding
campaign and invited people
around the world to help him
co-create “the most
beautiful album of my life.”
Tomlinson writes,
“I felt
that the only way my project
could stand apart is if I
could inspire people to want
to be a part of something
that made the world a better
place.” His effort was
extremely successful;
raising almost $20,000 more
than the songwriter had
asked for. He spent the fall
of 2015 in a Seattle
recording studio, with
several artists from around
the world contributing
tracks to his album, sending
music files back and forth
until the songs took form.
This summer Michael
Tomlinson releases House of
Sky.

The album is a bookend to
his very first album,“Run
This Way Forever” which
Michael released in the late
1980s. That album was played
in a couple of dozen cities
and sold over 100,000 copies
on Michael’s own small
label, Desert Rain. Michael
then signed with a series of
LA based labels, gaining one
Top Ten hit with “Dawning On
A New Day,” but decided in
the mid-1990s to leave the
chaos of the traditional
music industry when he
learned what he called,
“an
obvious-to-everyone-but-me
lesson; that the Music
Business was never about
music.” From that time on
Michael has continued to
write and record in Seattle
and perform concerts around
the U.S. every year. He also
hosts occasional retreats,
called “A Gathering of
Friends,” and brings
together groups of people
for discussion, laughter and
good will.